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Definition of Constricted
1. Adjective. Especially tense; especially in some dialects.
2. Adjective. Drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically. "A constricted view of life"
Definition of Constricted
1. a. Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.
Definition of Constricted
1. Verb. (past of constrict) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Constricted
1. constrict [v] - See also: constrict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constricted
Literary usage of Constricted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1880)
"In those cases, however, in which no tumour can be felt, the constricted ...
In the second place, it is impossible that the constricted mass can ever be ..."
2. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1885)
"... a portion of the intestine may become entangled and constricted. Sometimes the
bowel accidentally becomes engaged in a loop or noose of false membrane, ..."
3. A treatise on the diseases of the eye and its appendages by Richard Middlemore (1835)
"Constricted STATE OF THE LACHRYMAL PUNCTA.—In some cases of epiphora, and
inflammation of the conjunctiva and tarsal margins, we observe a very irritable ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"The vertical side tube is left open at the top, where it is constricted to such
a diameter that it will receive and hold closely the shell of the Beckmann ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"... the isthmus or intermediate part. as this is the part which is constricted or
ligated, and where extirpation is made, and may be two to two and a half ..."
6. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Pod thick, beaked by the stout style, 1-celled, filled with spongy or corky
tissue, lightly constricted between the seeds or even monili- form, ..."
7. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"Constricted chest from corset. The corset is the greatest and most serious ...
after a time those injuries and anomalies of which the constricted chest ..."
8. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"I am informed that my little book' is moving, yet expect a constricted bulk to
be soon bellowing to me from stagnation that I was once more a fool to ..."
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